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Using this guide, collection managers and acquisitions librarians, preservation librarians, catalogers, and library managers will understand how to utilize the technical services workflow to process and showcase this unique material.An important resource for scholarly research, grey literature is relevant to every discipline. It's also often more current than commercial publications. Unfortunately, though it provides a richness of content, this type of scholarly resource is often overlooked when conducting research. This book aims to change that, describing the importance of grey literature and offering a holistic approach to successfully integrating it into library collections. Readers will learn an overview of grey literature that discusses its importance to researchers, scholars, and students; collections policies for selection and deselection, complete with a suggested workflow; information about vendors, OA, and other aspects of acquisitions; guidance on cataloging, such as collection categories in the public-facing catalog, and preservation; and methods for promoting grey literature in library collections, including institutional repositories; and tips for marketing, branding, outreach, and best communication practices for colleagues, administrators, and patrons.

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Awkwardly, and despite the work of organizations such as GreyNet International, there are no standardized approaches to describing, safekeeping and finding GL. This is the reason this book is so valuable ... Should you read it? Certainly. This field is only going to become more important. And it's a pleasure to read. The editing is tight, the contents are engaging, the layout is helpful, there are notes and references throughout, plus a useful index. Who should read it? Anyone with an interest in the future of organized information, and that's us. -- Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association Do not let the size of this book fool you, as its 128 pages are filled with a great deal of information ... I must admit that when I initially approached this book, collection management of grey literature was not high on my radar or so I thought, but as I proceeded through the book I began to think about what is going into our own university repository, materials in our archives and special collections, as well as some of the requests we are now receiving from students, faculty, and scholars doing research, much of which falls into the category of grey literature. As a librarian who has been working in collection management for more than 20 years, I recommend this book to others working in collection development and management, as well as those in technical services. -- Technicalities

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Susan E. Thomas served as the ALCTS Monographs Editor from 2015 to 2020. She is the Director of Collection Services for the Schurz Library and Subject Librarian for the Health Sciences at Indiana University South Bend. Susan has twenty-nine years of experience working in academic libraries. Prior to her current position at IU South Bend, Susan served as the Facilitator for Reference Services (1997–2004) and Archivist (1995–1997) at Valdosta State University (Georgia); the Assistant Head of the Regents Center Library and Bibliographer for Social Welfare at the University of Kansas/Edwards Campus; and as a Medical Reference Librarian at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center Library. Susan holds a BA in Psychology (Indiana University), a Master's in Library and Information Science (Indiana University), and a Master's in Public Affairs (Indiana University South Bend).  Michelle Leonard is a tenured librarian at the Marston Science Library, George A. Smathers Libraries, at the University of Florida. She is a collection manager for the natural resources and environmental sciences disciplines that span engineering, agriculture and geological sciences. Michelle is the co-author of the highly reviewed Implementing and Assessing Use-Driven Acquisitions (2016). She has conducted presentations on assessment and collection building at several conferences, including the Library Assessment Conference, Charleston Library Conference, Association of College & Research Libraries Conference, ALA Annual Conferences, American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition, and the International Association of Aquatic and Marine Sciences Libraries and Information Centres (IAMSLIC) Conferences.

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